Voices against isolated confinement in US Prisons

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Length: 0:28:40
Uploaded: 22 Sep, 2014

Recording Date: 21 Sep, 2014
Recording Location: New York State, California, British Columbia Canada
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #22-14 Solitary by WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service and Voices for Justice is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.storiesforjustice.org/voices-from-the-box-a-call-to-end-the-torture-of-isolated-confinement/.
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Program Title: WINGS #22-14 Solitary
Description: Solitary Confinement is a discredited method that has been resurrected in US prisons with a vengeance. Although used casually and arbitrarily, longterm isolated confinement - defined by the UN as more than 15 days - has dire effects on mental health and rehabilitation.

Host(s): Silvia Heredia, Kellia Ramares-Watson
Featured Speakers/Guests: Panelists: Serena Liguori, Herstory Writers Workshop Program and Advocacy Director, who is instrumental in designing story-based strategies for justice reform, Megan Crowe-Rothstein, is Director of Social Work at the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project and is a member of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC); Claire de Roche an activist and member of CAIC and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), and Amol Sinha, Suffolk Chapter Director of the NYCLU. Host: Silvia Heredia of Herstory Writers Workshop.

Credits: Excerpted from the podcast Voices from the Box: A Call to End the Torture of Isolated Confinement, produced by Voices for Justice, and found online at http://www.storiesforjustice.org/voices-from-the-box-a-call-to-end-the-torture-of-isolated-confinement/ Editing and narration for WINGS by Kellia Ramares-Watson; WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden

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